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Old 12-15-10, 11:50 PM
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B. Carfree
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Originally Posted by bragi
I thought this was sort of touching. So optimistic, naive, and utterly insane all at he same time. It's interesting to see what those visionaries were imagining when they came up with the infrastructure plan that will eventually impoverish us all...

I kind of like the idea of heated roads, though.
Iceland has some heated roadway. They use some of their geothermal power to keep the road from freezing. It seems like I read something about Sweden doing the same thing a few years ago.
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